Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:35:07 +1000 | From | john slee <> | Subject | Re: Security question: "Text file busy" overwriting executables but not shared libraries? |
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:21:27PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I have days when I'm frustrated by the size of both glibc and the > > linux kernel. stripped both the linux kernel and glibc are comparable > > in size. Though I think the 400KB of compressed glibc-2.1.2 is > > actually smaller than the kernel for the most part. I have to strip > > off practically everthing to get a useable bzImage under 400KB. > > > > So any good ideas on how to get the size of linux down? > > Mind if I ask why you need a bzimage under 400kb? Just curious as I've > never had the need. (And I can see needing it less then 1.4meg - are you > trying to get a kernel AND a ramdisk on the one floppy?)
plenty of reasons. i'm building a compactflash-based linux router which will only have 16mb of flash for the entire system... saving 100kb means you can fit a few extra userspace tools in there...
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j.
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